The evolution and progression of our souls on the path to liberation and enlightenment is limitless. The true identity of the self, the soul, is immortal and eternal. As such, it has eternity ahead of it to learn, evolve and advance towards ever greater mastery of its capacity to create worlds and support all beings.
That’s why we have unshakeable, unchanging hope in our ability to learn from the sometimes-difficult lessons life gives us. It’s good to understand that all the events and circumstances that afflict us have been created by our thoughts, words and actions, and that they essentially contain the keys to our perfection. Understanding and meditating on karma, the law of cause and effect, is one of the most important contributions of Tibetan Buddhism. These understandings can also be found in Hindu spirituality and in Christian churches that stand in the teachings of Jesus Christ, who enunciated the Golden Law: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Indigenous native traditions, living simply in nature, taught these principles simply by the need for everyone to work together. Life in a community is very different from life in a society. A society, by definition, is a relationship in which humans are associated (hence the term society) in economic and financial relationships that do not include other beings in nature and do not entail close human, personal relationships. This human mode of management has no scruples when it comes to taking, damaging and using nature to make a profit, even at the expense of a multitude of living beings. On the other hand, life in a natural, indigenous community recognizes the importance of a good relationship with the environment and nature. It understands that everything is interrelated, connected, linked, and that any action that harms the environment will sooner or later harm the health of the humans living within it. Similarly, within community relations, individuals must integrate into their human milieu. For the First Peoples, the community was more important than the individual. That’s why it took 12 European soldiers to defeat one Indigenous warrior in the wars waged by colonizers to gain possession of First Nations territories in America. The warrior, the brave, knew the soul and was not afraid of death. He had a knowledge of the land and a physical form far superior to that of the degenerate civilized. Degenerate not only physically but also in consciousness, as required to serve as a soldier who obeys without question the orders of a hierarchy focused on profit and the enslavement of the people in the service of their elites. These elites are not elites by virtue of their evolution and integrity, but because they have accumulated wealth, not human, but financial. This wealth gives them the means to enslave other human beings and nature for their own benefit, beyond any correspondence between their true needs and the financial resources at their disposal.
But even within today’s societies and civilizations, evolution exists. The laws of karma are immutable. The ill-intentioned and selfish die in horrible suffering, while the good, generous and altruistic grow ever more joyful, loving and peaceful. The souls of those who have made others suffer will have to live a hundredfold the misery they have caused others. Those who have given of themselves to help others will experience favorable circumstances that will help them evolve rapidly in the comfort of a life surrounded by true friendship and true love on their path to liberation and enlightenment.
In this way, we can have courage and hope that every thought, word and action we make to help others and advance on the spiritual path will be multiplied a hundredfold in this and future lives. Human life is but an instant, the blink of an eye in the life of a soul. Take courage, have unfailing hope, for your evolution is limitless, Ever more wonderful and extraordinary paradises of light, love, joy and peace await you in the infinite dimensions of creation.
Happy Sunday to you all.